UPDATING OF CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

Up-to-date topographic plans and maps are urgently needed to solve various military tasks. Topographic maps of 1:5000, 1:2000, 1:1000 and 1:500 scales are usually created by using topographic surveys of a larger scale (Abstracts from the Conference Geoinformatics 2019). In accordance with the Topographic Imaging Instruction, the images are performed with: stereotopographic, combined aerotopograhic, plane-table, terrestrial phototopographic (phototheodolite shooting), tacheometric or theodolitemethods in scales of 1: 5000, 1: 2000, 1: 1000 and 1: 500. Combined method is the most widely used method. However, today, in addition to the traditional methods of creating topographic maps, there is the possibility of using materials obtained with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAV aerial photography materials are needed when up-to-date data on the immediate area of the warfare should be obtained and military geo-information systems (GIS) should be created. In addition to the fact that the aerial photography materials obtained from UAVs are highly informative, they also provide the opportunity to obtain up-to-date spatial and attribute data about the territory of warfare. The use of UAVs in order to update cartographic data of military GIS in recent years came to the fore because of the attractiveness of the relatively low cost of works on the creation of cartographic materials, correction maps, creation of digital area and terrain models.